Our Lady of Czestochowa

While the bishops proposed many possible topics for the meeting, the pontiff emphasized dialogue and peace as priorities. The pope also said migrants must be respected and needed services not denied.

A Washington suit over hospital treatment of employees, a Pennsylvania appeal against abortion funding, and a Maine senator's absence from abortion-related meetings in this week's pro-life roundup.

In addition, the pope will declare four other religious from various countries as venerable.

State officials also agreed to pay $250,000 in attorneys’ fees to the Christian couple who brought the lawsuit.

The 2026 Eucharistic pilgrimage will launch in St. Augustine, Florida, where the first recorded Catholic Mass within the future continental United States was celebrated.

Ahead of the publication of Leo's first encyclical, what do his writings and speeches, both before and after his election, reveal about his thought?

The two priests were imprisoned and executed by the Czechoslovak communist regime because of its hatred of the Catholic faith, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

“Current federal investments in housing programs do not meet the great need we see in our country,” said a joint letter by the bishops and leaders of two Catholic charitable groups.

"There's no officially state-sanctioned religion, but that does not mean that religion has no role in public life," Bishop Robert Barron said.

A leading pro-life nongovernmental organization is asking Malta's six political parties to declare publicly — yes or no — whether they would back abortion or euthanasia laws ahead of the May 30 vote.